Ticket.



No. 639,504. Patented sept. I9, |899. M CARBEL.

TICKET.

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MOSES G. CARREL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

TlCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,504, dated September 19, 1899.

Application fuednmch 8.189'7. seriftineezaese. momen.)

T0 @ZZ whom it' may con/cern:

13e it known that I, MOsEs G. CARREL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the countyof Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tickets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in railway-tickets, and comprises, essentially, a sectional ticket the essential characteristics of which lie in making it of separable-form and having both sections 'thereof imprinted with the governing characteristics of the ticket-such as the naine of the railway, the conditions under which the ticket is sold, and the railway oiiicers name and designation-- extending across the entire face of the ticket, comprising both sections thereof. In this manner I produce a ticket of such nature that a second use thereof is rendered impossible. v

Figure I is a view showing a single-trip ticket embodying my improvement. Fig. II shows a round-trip ticket, each half of which comprises a ticket of the same nature as the single-trip ticket shown in Fig. I.

The essential features of the ticket produced in accordance with my invention are, first, a division-line C, that divides the ticket into sections A and B; second, the name of the road issuing the ticket imprinted across the face thereof, so that part of it is located on one section of the ticket, while the other part is located on the opposite section; third, the arrangement of the name of the station at which the ticket is sold and from which it is good for transportation on one section of the ticket and the destinationstation is` printed on the opposite section; fourth, the conditions governing the ticket imprinted across the face thereof ontoboth of its sections; fifth, the arrangement of the signature and designation of' the issuing officer exsections thereof. XVith the use of a ticket having these essential features it is imperative that the ticket be intact at the time that it is presented by a passenger to the conductor for transportation, inasmuch as should the sections A and B, either one, be missing it is incomplete, and this fact is made readily apparent to the conductor by reason of a portion of the wording being absent and indicating clearly without further inspection of the ticket, or, rather, the fragment of it, that it is invalid by reason of not being in-V tact as provided for by the conditions under whichthe ticket is sold. Vhen the ticket intact is taken up by the conductor, one of the sections is marked passage-ticket and the other section is marked train-check, and these characteristics in the ticket must be presented in order to constitute a valid indication of compensation to the railwaycompany, for if either section is missing the ticket is incomplete, and the absence of a section indicates that the ticket has been mutilatedand has therefore become invalid for further use in obtaining transportation privileges.

Then the ticket is received by the conductor, the section marked passage-ticket is retained by him and is delivered to the auditor of the railway company to serve as a record, and the other seetion,marked traincheck]7 is returned to the passenger to serve as an indication of his having compensated the railway company for his transportation.

The advantages of'this ticket are evident, as material protection is afforded the railway company against improper use cfa ticket, as the nature of the ticket produced in accordance with my invention necessitates that it becomes worthless for transportation purposes when the sections are torn apart and the essential features thus canceled by mutilation. for the auditor of the sale of the ticket and affords the passenger a train-check.

I am aware that a patent was granted to Edwin G. Johnson, May 29, 1877, No.191,435, for a sectional railway-ticket; but in this ticket a portion of the governing matter thereof was designed to be imprinted on the face It, however, still serves as a record.

of the ticket and the remainder of the governing matter was imprinted on the back of the ticket. This arrangement necessitated the impression of two separate forms,and the ent-ire matter of the ticket was therefore not located in convenient form, as in a ticket IOO made in accordance With my invention,where the governing features are entirely arranged on the face of the ticket.

I claim as my inventionl. A railway-ticket composed of two sections adapted to be separated from each other on a division-line7 said ticket having printed on the tWo sections of the face thereof across the division-line the name of the issuing coinpany, a condition under which the ticket is sold, and the signature with title designation of the issuing officer, and one section containing the name of the station from which passage is accorded and the other section containing the destination-station; substantially as described.

2. A railway-ticket divisible Qn a given line into a condnctors ticket and train-check, and having the selling and destination points arranged on opposite sides of the dividing-line so as to be borne respectively by the conductors ticket and the train-check, and a statement of invalidatingcondition under which it is sold, and the signature with. office of issuing agent arranged across said line, so as to be divided by the separation of the ticket and check, thereby to cancel the same and invalidate each part as a ticket.

MOSES G. CARREL.

TWi tnesses:

WM. M. MONROE, C. F. ToLTzERN, J r. 

